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Ask “What is it?” not “Why is it happening?”

How do we respond to art that seeks us out rather than the other way around?Whether it’s a storytelling mural, a simple tag on a trashcan, or more performative, like that guy in San Francisco who does...

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Classic Books Hit the Streets

A public art project in London this summer aims to remind people of the joy that comes with reading books by decorating benches across the city with illustrations from classic literature. The...

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Public Poetry

I’m interested in Roland Barthes’s idea that mythology is essentially a type of speech, and that speech defines a culture. Poetry can define the dominant languages we have in culture—and now those...

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